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The Last Big Gun: At War and at Sea With HMS Belfast
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Brian Lavery
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Pool of London Pr
Publication date
October 19, 2015
Pages
352
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781910860014
ISBN-10
1910860018
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.70 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$36.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler’s newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the cruiser HMS Belfast. After three years of repairs to her broken keel, engine- and boiler-rooms, and extensive refitting, she would go on to play a critical role in the protection of the Arctic Convoys, would fire one of the opening shots at D-Day and continue supporting the Operation Overlord landings for five weeks.
Her service continued beyond the Second World War both in Korea and in the Far East before she commenced her life as one of the world’s most celebrated preserved visitor ships in the Pool of London. Her crowning glory however came in December 1943 when, equipped with the latest radar technology, she was to play the leading role in the Battle of the North Cape sinking the feared German battlecruiser Scharnhorst, the bête noir of the Royal Navy. In doing so the ship’s crew made a vital contribution to, what was to be, the final big-gun head-to-head action to be fought at sea
In The Last Big Gun Brian Lavery, the foremost historian of the Royal Navy, employs his trademark wide-ranging narrative style and uses the microcosm of the ship to tell the wider story of the naval war at sea and vividly portray the realities for all of life aboard a Second World War battleship. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and illustrations and will appeal to all those with an interest in military history and life in the wartime Royal Navy.
Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue: Mined
1 The Birth of a Cruiser
2 Preparing for Sea
3 War with Germany
4 Repair
5 Russian Convoy,
6 The War in the North
7 The Scharnhorst
8 To Normandy
9 To the East
10 Showing the Flag
11 Wars in the East
12 Recovered from the Reserve Fleet
Bibliography
Index
Her service continued beyond the Second World War both in Korea and in the Far East before she commenced her life as one of the world’s most celebrated preserved visitor ships in the Pool of London. Her crowning glory however came in December 1943 when, equipped with the latest radar technology, she was to play the leading role in the Battle of the North Cape sinking the feared German battlecruiser Scharnhorst, the bête noir of the Royal Navy. In doing so the ship’s crew made a vital contribution to, what was to be, the final big-gun head-to-head action to be fought at sea
In The Last Big Gun Brian Lavery, the foremost historian of the Royal Navy, employs his trademark wide-ranging narrative style and uses the microcosm of the ship to tell the wider story of the naval war at sea and vividly portray the realities for all of life aboard a Second World War battleship. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and illustrations and will appeal to all those with an interest in military history and life in the wartime Royal Navy.
Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue: Mined
1 The Birth of a Cruiser
2 Preparing for Sea
3 War with Germany
4 Repair
5 Russian Convoy,
6 The War in the North
7 The Scharnhorst
8 To Normandy
9 To the East
10 Showing the Flag
11 Wars in the East
12 Recovered from the Reserve Fleet
Bibliography
Index
Editions
Hardcover
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from Pool of London Pr (October 19, 2015); titled "The Last Big Gun: At War and at Sea With HMS Belfast"
9781910860014 | details & prices | 352 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.70 lbs | List price $36.95
About: As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler’s newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the cruiser HMS Belfast.
About: As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler’s newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the cruiser HMS Belfast.
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